Resurrecting the Champ: Drama. Starring Josh Hartnett, Samuel L. Jackson, Alan Alda and Kathryn Morris. Directed by Rod Lurie. (PG-13. 100 minutes. At Bay Area theaters. For complete listings and show ...

Resurrecting the Champ is a sports drama film that follows an out-of-luck reporter who, one day, meets a homeless man and believes that he is the legendary boxer champion from his childhood. The film ...

PARK CITY -- Knock-out story about a skid-row, one-time contender and a mediocre sports writer who find they don't need their inflated glory-days lies to puff themselves up, with an outstanding lead ...

“Resurrecting the Champ” is not a sequel to “The Champ,” the male weepie that won a 1931 Oscar for Wallace Beery and launched Ricky Schroder’s career when it was remade in 1979. But the script, ...

Resurrecting the Champ, a Josh Hartnett-Samuel L. Jackson film set in Denver, opened on August 24, and local reviewers gave the movie the hometown discount: Robert Denerstein, writing his first ...

If "Resurrecting the Champ" were a prizefighter, he'd be soft around the middle. If not for Samuel L. Jackson's performance as the ravaged boxer, "Champ" would be of limited interest. If “Resurrecting ...